Sefer ha-Bahir (The Book of Brilliance): A Complete Hebrew-English Bitext Edition of All 200 Sections (Hekhal Targum)

A complete Hebrew-English parallel edition (bitext) of the entire Sefer ha-Bahir (The Book of Brilliance), all 200 sections (simanim), produced with the Hekhal Targum engine. The Bahir (late 12th c., Provence; pseudepigraphically attributed to the first-century tanna R. Nehunya ben ha-Kanah) is one of the foundational works of Kabbalah -- the earliest text to present the ten sefirot, the Shekhinah as the divine feminine, and the transmigration of souls (gilgul). Method. The Hebrew is reproduced verbatim from the Hebrew Wikisource transcription (retrieved via Sefaria) and byte-verified. The English rendering runs under a controlled Kabbalah glossary enforced as a hard constraint and a pardes frame controller, with the full apparatus exposed rather than buried. Every edition passed a blind cross-context back-translation reconcile -- a fresh pass re-Hebraizing the English without sight of the source, to catch drift structurally rather than by attention -- and per-locus scriptural-citation verification; 28 scribal citation defects in the source transcription were caught and rendered at the correct loci, each flagged in the apparatus. This deposit contains the 84 structured editions (grouping the 200 simanim) as MDX source. The human-readable edition is published openly at hekhal.org. Status: provisional, AI-assisted, openly licensed; corrections from scholars are genuinely welcomed. The Hebrew source is public domain (late 12th c.); the digital transcription is from Hebrew Wikisource (CC-BY-SA); the English rendering and apparatus are by Hekhal (CC-BY-SA-4.0).